Bible Strands
Isaiah 60:18
No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Zion in a prophetic vision of future restoration, promising the cessation of internal chaos and the establishment of righteous governance. This declaration immediately follows the promise of moral rulers and precedes the revelation of divine illumination.
The words — חָמָס (cha.Mas) means violence, and שֹׁד (shod) means devastation, both describing conditions that will no longer be heard within the city's boundaries.
The thread — The pattern of removed destruction and redefined security runs through Isaiah 11:9, Isaiah 26:1, and Zechariah 9:8. These texts consistently link the absence of harm to the direct presence of divine authority.
Why it lands — The text requires a reader to accept that security and civic identity are established by divine intervention rather than human engineering. It demands a practical reorientation of trust from physical defenses to the promised reality of God's governance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
- Isaiah 11:9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
- Zechariah 9:8 But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of those who march to and fro, and never again will an oppressor overrun My people, for now I keep watch with My own eyes.
- Psalms 72:3 May the mountains bring peace to the people, and the hills bring righteousness.
- Isaiah 2:4 Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
- Micah 4:3 Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
- Revelation 19:1 After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!